We began to consider last week that being a slave is not a topic with which we are familiar in our culture. Slavehood is frowned against and, in some aspects, rightly so. Our awareness of what a slave is comes from our knowledge of American slaves; of people being kidnapped from their homelands and subject to sub-human treatment, but this is not the understanding of being a slave in the scriptures. It is not the slave labour that Wilberforce fought against.